Teen Gothic

To clarify: This is just my personal experience with goths on the app, and it doesn't apply to all the ones I met there either.

Anyway. I have the feeling most goths on social media in general (even more on that damned brainrot app) are always repeating the same 4 phrases like fucking parrots. Seriously, it's always the same pseudo-thirst trap videos with the phrase "goth is a music based subculture" or "you can't be a goth if you buy from shein" "everyone is mean and elit1st" "you can't be a bigot(their definition of bigot is interesting) if you call yourself a goth" etc. All of this is TRUE ngl but they say it as if no one else heard it before. Which i find stupid tbh. On top of that there's all that attitude of wanting to show goths are kind and accepting/inclusive of everything on earth which is not true when it comes to hanging out in your local scene with people who have been on this planet for more than 15 years. Seriously I beg these individual to step out of their "Emily the strange" themed room and go get shitfaced at an ebm concert or something

genuinely want to know cuz i am thinking of Hawaiian black shirt with bats?

this has probably come up in discussion but hopefully i’m not the only one who gets irritated by people on tiktok trying to say what gothic style/makeup is trad or not? i understand that certain gothic looks can “categorize” as trad/romantic/victorian/etc. but i feel as if they’ve sucked the creativity specifically out of trad style/makeup as if a lot of trad goths didn’t/don’t have their own personal style of clothes/makeup. literally the point (from what i’ve heard, i could be wrong) was to go against social norms, so now that they’re “policing” people’s styles/makeup feels weird. idk the superiority complex that people have on tiktok about “being trad goth” rubs me the wrong way. it feels very try hard, like all you gotta do is listen to the music and go from there… don’t even get me started about the whole “you need a white base to be goth” or thinking goths just wear black and white, no colors. opinions appreciated in the comments 🙂

i recognize some of these albums (cure,smiths,siouxsie) but i have no idea about most of them

https://www.mtv.com/news/ys31wm/goth-tiktok-mareux-awfully-sinister-dusty-gannon

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I don't pay much heed to the MTVs music blogs from past a decade or so, but seeing them writing an article about Goth music and subculture after so many years caught my eye. Though the article mentions several new goth bands it also talks about how ekids and tiktok helped goth being into trends again. I personally do not find it actually helping goth being in trends again since goth subculture has always been there thriving in music and scene (though of course not at mainstream level), but also would love to know the community's thoughts on the article 🙂

I am still relatively new to goth in general but something that really annoys me with the recent subculture trends on social media is that people try too hard to get into them on the terms of looks but then only listen to a few bands that are considered mainstream in that community and use it to act like they’re "different" or "underground". They only care about the "aesthetic" and don’t want to be called posers but aren’t that much interested in the music itself .

That specific person acted shocked when I said I listened to The Cure, Bauhaus , TsOm ect even after two of our friends who aren’t goth at all said they knew all the bands.

I’ll admit it, in comparison to any elder goth my music taste is pretty basic.

They don’t seem to understand there is a difference between being new to a subculture and actually looking into it and bragging about a few things everyone in that community knows.

And obviously this doesnt work for just goth, it applies to a lot of other subcultures with grunge, metal genres especially lately ,ect